Second Life daily news

• The SS Galaxy — The biggest thing in this big virtual thing?
• The Little Newbie — Dance to the beat of Alienhearts.
• Turpster visits SL — Now we need to return the silverware and apologize.
• Old land store closes. Again — New land store in beta.
• 1.20(RC6) — No more smartheap errors, but still largely skirtless.
• Uproar at ABC Island — Apathy and acrimony among Australian admins?
• Grid status reports — Kanomi takes on grid bothers.

• 13,324 new signups bringing the total to 13,534,384 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 59,710 at 1:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 35,133 at 2:15AM. Median concurrency for the day was 46,435.

The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.80 (lower is better). The morning glitch you see is where a large number of users were logged out to migrate the inventory databases that served their accounts to improved hardware. Additionally, there were some late problems with the Support Portal.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Recent users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in at least once within the last 60 days) is 1,144,530. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 7 May 2008 at 23:59.

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